Germany: ca. 1496.
Price: $12,000.00
A fine impression, with good clarity and strong contrasts. Slight breakdown in the delicate cuts. Trimmed within the platemark, inconspicuous paper repair to edge. Provenance: From the renowned collection of Richard Holtkott (1890-1950) (Lugt 4265). Bartsch 95, High Crown watermark (Meder 20).“The pig represented here refers to 'The Monstrous Pig...
[Augsburg: Sigmund Grimm and Marx Wirsung], 1522.
Price: $4,500.00
A very good copy in modern paste-paper wrappers. Small adhesion scar to blank portion of title, far from text.An early edition of Eberlin’s “In praise of parish priests Concerning the useless sums paid out by the common, unsuspecting people for mass readings, funerals, internments, sevenths and thirtieths, etc. And in...
[Basel: Pamphilus Gengenbach], 1521.
Price: $5,500.00
This work is the second of Eberlin’s “Fünfzehn Bundsgenossen” (“The Fifteen Confederates”). Bound in quarter vellum and modern patterned boards. A nice copy, title a little dusty and with small marginal stain, with a title woodcut of Jesus disputing with the Devil set within an ornamental historiated border.Eberlin von Günzburg...
Venice: [Per Comin da Trino di Monferrato], 1574.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in near-contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties, paper label chipped. Contents fine. Light soiling to title, short worm-trail in the inner margin of gatherings F and G, small portion of blank corner of leaf F6 snipped away. Five parts in one volume; Four divisional title pages dated 1573. All...
Augsburg: Maria Magdalena Utzschneider, 1699.
Price: $10,500.00
Bound in contemporary, blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards (re-cased and with new endpapers), deftly rebacked in pigskin, spine with author’s name and the title in ink, minor defects, metal clasps removed. A fine copy internally with scattered light foxing and occasional toning. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, 6 added...
London: [Printed by Thomas Marsh], 1557.
Price: $18,000.00
A fine, tall, and interesting copy, bound in contemporary English sheep, with patches of wear, and skilful repairs to spine and corners. The contents are crisp and bright, with a slight worm-trail in the lower margin of the opening leaves. The flyleaves are from William Lily’s grammar, “An introduction of...
Florence: Per Gio. Batista Landini, 1634.
Price: $14,500.00
Bound in contemporary parchment (upper cover soiled and with light staining, small defects to parchment at foot of spine), tooled in gold with attractive ornaments. A fine copy with sharp impressions of the etchings. The text with minor blemishes as follows: light marginal foxing, a few small spots, marginal soiling...
London: for Ralph Mab and are to be sold by John Jackson and Francis Church, 1634.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in contemporary speckled sheep (old repair to foot of spine and one lower corner, joints and leather of spine cracked, top of spine worn). Apart from the wear to the spine and a mild dampstain in the last part, a nice, clean copy. The book preserves evidence of its...
Basel: Johann Froben, August 21 1521 - January, 1522.
Price: $16,000.00
An excellent copy, bound in contemporary half-pigskin and wooden boards with very minor wear, and with the brass clasps and catches perfectly preserved. The paper is very fresh, the margins ample. The outer margin of the title is very slightly frayed, not affecting the woodcut border. There are a few...
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Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1524.
Price: $12,500.00
Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lightly soiled. The contents are in very good condition with a few pencil annotations and light soiling to the title page. With Badius' device of his print shop, the “Praelum Ascensianum” showing printers working a press, on the title page. With large, attractive crible initials...
Basel: Apud Ioan. Froben. Mense Xbri. 1520.
Price: $12,000.00
Bound in contemporary reversed-deerskin (with minor stains and surface wear). A fine, tall, and fresh copy. Woodcut border by Hans Holbein to title page, additional woodcut borders to second leaf and the opening leaf of the text. Woodcut Froben device on verso of final leaf. Neat contemporary annotations in the...
Frankfurt: Johann David Zunner, 1684.
Price: $6,800.00
Complete with the engraved title page, which has been folded at the bottom to avoid trimming by the binder. Bound in 18th c. quarter vellum and marbled boards with some minor wear. The contents are in very fine condition. Small adhesion scar to title. Illustrated with 41 large woodcuts."Ercker's treatise...
Cambridge: Ex officinâ Johan. Hayes, celeberrimæ Academiæ typographi. Impensis Richardi Green bibliopolæ Cantab. 1694.
Price: $2,500.00
Bound in contemporary English calf, rebacked preserving the original spine. The boards are blind-ruled in compartments; there is an attractive red morocco lettering piece, gilt, on the spine. Aside from light wear and bumping to the corners, the binding is very well preserved. Internally, this copy is in excellent condition...
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Nuremberg: Gedrückt zu Nürnberg durch Friderich Gutknecht, 1554.
Price: $5,500.00
Bound in modern vellum over boards (soiled, slightly bowed). The text is in very good condition with a little light dust-soiling, a few small spots on the final two leaves, and soiling to the verso of the final leaf. With two woodcut illustrations and a fine woodcut ornament on the...
[London]: n.p., 1623.
Price: $3,800.00
Bound in 20th c. quarter Morocco and olive cloth over boards with gold-tooling on spine (spine rubbed). A very good copy. Small wormhole to blank upper, inner corner of opening leaves (with a smidge of loss to the margin of the t.p., not affecting text.) Lower margin of t.p. slightly...
Florence: nella Stamperia di S.A.R. Per li Tartini, e Franchi, 1725.
Price: $3,200.00
Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, edges of text-block sprinkled red. A very fine copy, printed on thick paper. The large, folding plate of the catafalque (51 x 35 cm.) is also in fine condition.An account of the funeral ceremonies for Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 30...
Turin: Gio. Battista Chais, 1737.
Price: $15,000.00
Bound in contemporary marbled boards, worn and soiled, rebacked in later sheep. An unusually nice copy internally, with just the slightest toning to some plates, a few spots, clean tear to center of one plate at fold (no loss), and light finger-soiling in the margins. Magnificent engraved ornamental frontispiece by...
Florence: Appresso Bartolomeo Sermartelli e frateli, 1608.
Price: $5,800.00
Bound in early 20th c. quarter red Morocco and marbled boards (small repairs to head and foot of spine). A fine copy with scattered mild spotting. Complete with the folding plate of the banquet (signed “Mattheus Greuter excudit”.) Two lines have been erased from the plate, as is the case...
Florence: Appresso Cristofano Marescotti, 1608.
Price: $2,100.00
Recently bound in early parchment (slight wear). The text is in very good condition with scattered mild foxing. Early ink note at head of title (illegible). Small woodcut (impaled arms of Cosimo II and Maria Magdalena) on the title. PROVENANCE: 1. Unidentified collector’s stamp (three hills with initials PLT, surmounted...
Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1602.
Price: $16,000.00
A very fine, broad-margined copy, bound in contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled, some stains, corners bumped). The contents are in excellent condition, the text bright, the plates in rich impressions. Insignificant defects as follows: small crease to upper corner of t.p, p. 263-272, 304-312 with small stain at head, very...
Siena: Dai Torchi Pazzini Carli, 1791.
Price: $6,400.00
A special copy, bound in original pink wrappers with the Greater coat of Arms of the Grand duchy of Tuscany. The text and plates untrimmed and fresh. Illustrated with 4 engraved plates showing costumes, floats and the triumphal arch, engraved by Alessandro Mochetti after Tommaso Paccagnini. Also with an engraved...
Cambridge: ¶ Printed by the Printers to the University of Cambridge, 1633.
Price: $5,800.00
[Bound with:] Fletcher, Giles (1585/6-1623) Christs victorie and triumph in heaven and earth, over and after death. The second edition. Cambridge: printed [by Thomas and John Buck] for Francis Green, 1632 [Bound with:] Fletcher, Phineas (1582-1650) Locustae, vel Pietas Iesuitica. Per Phineam Fletcher Collegii Regalis Cantabrigiae [Second title page:] The Locusts, or Appollyonists. By Phineas Fletcher...
Venice: Giovann’ Antonio e Pietro fratelli de Nicolini da Sabio, 1546.
Price: $4,900.00
Bound in 18th-century stiff parchment with a gilt lettering piece on the spine. A fine, clean copy with just some occ. light foxing, a marginal stain on a few leaves, and a small worm hole to the last two leaves slightly affecting the headline. Last leaf backed (and with light...
London: Printed by Nicholas Okes for Richard Collins, 1633.
Price: $65,000.00
Bound in 19th century half calf and marbled boards (leather scraped at corners and spine, light wear at lower edges.), spine with title and date tooled in gold. Contents foxed and spotted, some minor stains, outer margin of H4 and I3 trimmed with some minor loss to the ends of...
Bologna: per gli heredi del Dozza, [1655]-, 1656.
Price: $35,000.00
Two volumes bound in matching contemporary vellum, lightly soiled. Internally, a fine, broad-margined set with the usual variable light paper toning associated with this edition and scattered light foxing. Minor faults as follows: a paper repair to the blank margin of one leaf and two short marginal tears, far from...
